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As our future market opportunities have increased in recent years, we have continued to invest in disruptive analog platforms and have created innovative new solutions for a wide range of leading-edge products.\nThe Sensing Product Group located in our San Diego office has unique expertise in system-level platform solutions for Sensing Products including Touch & Proximity. These are leading edge low power touch-interface solutions integrated with highly accurate ADCs for enhanced sensing performance. These ultra-small, feature-rich sensing systems are optimized for a wide range of battery-powered, portable applications such as smartphones, laptops, tablets, wearables, handheld devices and other consumer, industrial or automotive control applications.\nJob Summary:\nThe Senior Embedded Firmware Design Engineer is responsible for designing, developing and validating a variety of firmware-based systems and functions. The role focuses on high-accuracy, low-power sensing platforms, including firmware for mixed-signal sensing SoCs with on-chip ADCs, proximity, touch and gesture recognition. Ahead of detailed design, the Senior Engineer, Embedded Firmware Design, will actively participate in the definition of the chip, systems, and blocks including interactions with application, system, digital hardware, analog, and cross functional teams.\nThe role also includes innovation & technical leadership, mentoring and supervision of junior engineers, pre-silicon and post-silicon validations or their supervision, support to application and production test engineers, and definition of test methodology.\nResponsibilities:\nDefine, develop, verify and optimize embedded firmware for low-power mixed-signal circuits. Design embedded firmware functions, sub and full systems, from specification definition to support to production. Develop and deploy rule-based and ML-based inference firmware, leveraging AI-assisted development tools and workflows. Implement testability and diagnosis features to support hardware testing. Generate technical documentation and drive design reviews.\n\nDefine and implement pre-silicon simulation validation, unit and regression testing, debug, emulation, and FPGA prototyping. Support top verification.\n\nSpecify and implement system-level and hardware-firmware architectures, from top-level specification analysis to system and firmware optimization. Evaluate and specify CPU/micro-controller selection and ROM/RAM memory sizing based on system requirements and constraints.\n\nSupport silicon lab evaluation, performance characterization and debug. Provide comprehensive post-silicon customer technical support, RMA analysis and field issue resolution.\n\nInterface with system, digital hardware, analog, verification and cross functional teams.\n\nMentor and supervise junior engineers.\n\nTechnical support to test, product and application engineers.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\n8-10 years of industry experience in embedded firmware for mixed-signal integrated circuits\n\nB.S. or M.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering\n\nStrong analytical, synthesis and problem solving skills\n\nIn-depth knowledge and experience in firmware development for mixed-signal ICs, HW-SW architectures and co-design, real-time embedded systems, data path, signal processing & algorithms, system trade-offs (power, speed, hardware resources, memory footprint)\n\nStrong background with MCU based systems (ARM, RISC-V, PIC, STM32), architecture, and instruction set\n\nProficiency in C/C++ and assembly language programming, scripting languages (Python), debugging capabilities, industry leading embedded software suites (IDE), AI coding tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot), and evaluation/validation of AI-generated code\n\nExperience with bare-metal firmware development.\n\nDesign for test experience including implementation of testability and diagnostic features.\n\nExperience with configurations, version control, release management, integration, unit and regression testing\n\nDemonstration of technical leadership and innovation\n\nExperience with standard hardware protocols (I2C, I3C, SPI, MIPI, JTAG, PCIe)\n\nHands-on experience with development boards, FPGAs, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, supplies, multimeters and the associated measurement methods\n\nIndependent, self-motivated, rigorous, innovating, team player and able to follow through\n\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills\n\nKnowledge of system-level aspects: signal processing, mixed-signal, digital hardware, analog, modelling, test and application\n\nDesired Qualifications\nExperience with system/digital design methods & tools, Matlab, SV/Verilog/VHDL etc.\n\nExperience with consumer, industrial, or automotive market circuit developments\n\nThe intent of this job description is to describe the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. Incumbents may be required to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically included in this description.\nAll duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.\nWe are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace.\nA reasonable estimate of the pay range for this position is $116K - $200K. 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